Title: Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell
My Rating: 👍👍👍👍👍
My Review: According to the Internet, Animal Farm "is widely considered a literary classic and one of the most influential political satires of the 20th century". The book was first published in 1945 and uses a fictional farm setting to critique totalitarianism and the corruption of power. The story starts somewhat innocently with disgruntled farm animals taking over a farm. They then setup a somewhat egalitarian system where each animal is considered equal. Things evolve and through various means of deception, the pigs take over and the farm ends up becoming a dictatorship much like when the humans were in control. I enjoyed this book but found it to be frightenly similar to what is happening in America now. This book should be required reading for all ages.
Description (Audible): George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture, quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words. It is an account of the bold struggle that transforms Mr. Jones' Manor Farm into Animal Farm, a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that bears an insidious familiarity. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is re-established with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.
